Paid, but the Ads Won't Go Away — Closing a StoreKit 2 Transaction.updates Launch Race with Antigravity
How I traced a StoreKit 2 launch race that dropped transactions arriving right after startup, pinned the listener to the app's lifetime instead of a view's, reconciled with currentEntitlements, and let Antigravity turn it into a StoreKitTest regression suite.
When AppEnum Breaks in App Intents — Designing EntityQuery so Siri Can Pick From a Catalog That Grows Every Day
Writing an App Intents parameter with AppEnum works fine while the options are fixed, but it cannot survive content that grows daily. Here is the AppEntity + EntityQuery design that lets Siri and Shortcuts correctly pick from a dynamic catalog, including identifier stability and Spotlight pitfalls.
When Universal Links Break Silently — Catching Association Drift with an Agent-Run Verification Gate
Universal Links and App Links fall back to the browser with no error when your association files or entitlements drift apart. Here is a design that generates the files from one source of truth and hands weekly and pre-release checks to an agent.
Before You Let Siri Run an Agent-Written App Intent — Classify by Side Effect and Gate the Destructive Ones
Letting Siri or an assistant run an Antigravity-generated App Intent without a gate means a destructive action can fire from a single voice command. Here is how I classify intents by side effect, gate the irreversible ones, and catch missing gates before push.
Catching Download Size Regressions Before Submission Day — A Weekly Agent Gate for AAB/IPA Size Budgets
Mediation SDKs and bundled assets quietly inflate download size. A design for size ledgers, budget gates, and agent-driven delta attribution using bundletool and App Thinning reports.
Adding Mediation Partners Quietly Starved My iOS Attribution — Reconciling SKAdNetwork IDs Across Four Apps
I added mediation partners but iOS revenue barely moved — the cause was missing SKAdNetwork IDs in Info.plist. Here is how I reconciled SKAdNetworkItems across four apps, using an Antigravity agent as the matcher while keeping the revenue decisions by hand.
When a Local iOS Build Passes but CI's TestFlight Upload Rejects the Signature — Field Notes on match Code-Signing Drift
Running fastlane match on CI can produce builds that succeed while only the TestFlight upload fails on signing. These field notes show how to diagnose the certificate/profile drift reproducibly, lock CI to readonly, and add a pre-upload gate that stops bad signatures before they reach Apple.
Why Antigravity Agents Build Your Xcode Project Fine One Day and Break It the Next on a Synced Folder
Put an Xcode project inside a Dropbox-synced folder, hand it to an Antigravity agent, and builds start passing and failing at random. Here is the real cause — sync daemon versus build — and how to fix it with xattr exclusion and a conflict-copy preflight.
When Xcode Cloud's Free 25 Hours Quietly Run Out at Month's End — Field Notes on Measuring and Defending Compute Time
Before Xcode Cloud's free compute allowance drains at month's end and your builds sit queued, measure where it goes. Practical field notes on pulling usage from the App Store Connect API, stopping wasteful builds early, and trimming test runs to keep CI inside budget.
My Daily Wallpaper Widget Stopped Updating — Measuring WidgetKit's Reload Budget and Rebuilding the Design
A widget that was supposed to rotate the wallpaper every day froze after a few days. Here is how I measured WidgetKit's timeline reload budget and extension memory limit, then rebuilt the design around a single daily timeline.
When StoreKit 2 Users Say They Paid but Can't Access — Field Notes on Subscription Entitlement Drift
StoreKit 2 subscriptions are harder to operate than to implement. This is a record of the drift between currentEntitlements, subscription.status, and server notifications — and the reconcile logic that finally stopped the support tickets.
Porting a Wallpaper Viewer's Slideshow and Page-Scrubber from iOS to Android — Where the Two-Way Sync with SnapHelper Tripped Me Up
A hands-on record of porting a full-screen wallpaper viewer's slideshow and bottom scrubber from iOS to Android. How I pinned down the current page with RecyclerView and SnapHelper, synced it two-way with the scrubber, and resolved the conflict between auto-advance and user input with a small state machine — in working Kotlin.